Good to see you back, AmounrA.
To my mind, there are "maps" and then, there are 'maps', each mapping in some manner or other what it seeks to map.
With the Tree of Life, perhaps the mapping is more multilayered than some may want to make it - I'll follow through with this a little further, let me first
try and explain what I mean my the various kinds of
maps.
A terrain map basically shows an image of the landscape as it would be seen from above, with perhaps more abstracted or accentuated features depicted (for example, lines for roads, dots for towns or post offices, elevation lines, etc.). This kind of map is for a
specific unique area.
A major city conceptual map would be more like an interconnected list of what makes a city finction effectively (educational and religious places, judicial, public and private transport, sewerage, government, stores, residential areas, etc.). This kind of map is more general, and applies to all major cities.
Another consideration is that a map of inter-relationships of still distinct elements may be applicable to more than one area. This is, to my mind, one of the brilliant effectiveness of the Tree of Life: on the one hand it is Adam Kadmon, thus archetypal Man; on the other a spiritual mapping of the whole manifested edifice.
To view, for example, the psychological dimensions of humanity as reflected in the various
Sefirot is quite legitimate, though to 'reduce' the Tree of Life as solely a psychological 'model' is not. Similarly, the psycho-physiological-physical sciences may be viewed as reflected in the tree, but to 'reduce' the tree to it being 'simply' a model for the
physical universe does not, to my way of thinking, do justice to its more essential characteristics.
In some manner, I personally would place all more physics
within Malkut - to use a description of Dion Fortune (
Mystical Qabalah, p 266) for this
Sefirah (there is much of Dion Fortune's work I do not agree with, but this part I personally think she has captured brilliantly):
[Malkuth is to be understood as] the underlying noumenon of the physical plane which gives rise to all physical phenomena.
As the underlying noumenon, the physical sciences investigate (even quantum physics) how this already manifests.
Of course, one
may, using the Tree of Life in a different manner, analogically place various sciences in various
Sefirot. This, however, is using the map provided in
one manner that allows to perhaps see further inter-relationships that exists between the various sciences, rather than being the 'real' Tree (oops... what a concept to finish my post on!).